On Wednesday 01 January 2020 04:03:09 Sl�vek Banko wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 of January 2020 08:02:17 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:45:46 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:26:24 Felix Miata wrote:
> > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-12-31 13:26 (UTC-0500):
> > > > > Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps.
> > > >
> > > > 1-Make sure tdm-trinity is installed and configured.
> > > >
> > > > 2-Purge lightdm, sddm, kdm, gdm and any other dm you can find
> > > > besides tdm.
> > >
> > > Did that, now the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity kills the xsession
> > > and restarts xfce4 w/o presenting a choice menu, it just restartx
> > > xfce4 And now I've got 10 minutes or more getting everything
> > > restarted. grrr.
> > >
> > > > 3-Make sure /etc/X11/default-display-manager exists and contains
> > > > /opt/trinity/bin/tdm.
> > >
> > > It exists, and does contain the above.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Also I have TDE installed on one of my milling machines, and logging
> > in to run linuxcnc after upgrading it to 14.0.7 seems to have gone
> > aglay there also. I'll see if a similar procedure will fix it later
> > today when I can get to its own keyboard.  There from an ssh -Y
> > login, dpkg-reconfigure tdm.trinity, reports that tdm.trinity is not
> > installed. So I callup synaptic and re-install tdm.trinity, but
> > still get the message that its not installed:(paste from that ssh
> > login) 14.0.7 on 2 machines, 2 machines failed.
> >
> > gene@GO704:~/linuxcnc/configs/GO704-5i25-7i76$ gksudo synaptic
> > gene@GO704:~/linuxcnc/configs/GO704-5i25-7i76$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure
> > tdm.trinity
> > [sudo] password for gene:
> > dpkg-query: package 'tdm.trinity' is not installed and no
> > information is available
> > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: tdm.trinity is not installed
> >
> > Looks like that package needs help.  That machine is still running
> > wheezy FWIW.
> >
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> in the mail you mention tdm.trinity several times - I do not know if
> it is a repeated typo in the mail or if you really typed such a name
> in the command line? It should be tdm-trinity.
>
> Cheers

Probably a typo, but I'll sure check it right now. And you are right, now 
its not an error. Reboot in progress.

And now the startup error seems to be pointing at a missing gladevcp.  
Thats is a gcode helper I don't use very often. Removed its references 
from the .ini file, and linixcnc runs ok w/o it.

But this is typical, everytime we find a tool that lets us enhance the 
usefullness of linuxcnc, it gets removed. A tool that needs GTK-2, I had 
installed it to see if it would be helpfull when I was doing something 
I'd not done before. I generally write my own g-code, its not THAT hard.  
I got to look at it for about 6 months, now its gone and in terms of GUI 
usefullness, GTK-3 isn't even as usefull as those famous appendages on a 
boar hogs belly.  Not your fault but Grrrrrrrrrr.

Than you Sl�vek, and I hope 2020 is a better year for everybody...

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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